Abstract The Galileo mission to Jupiter revealed that Europa is an ocean world. The Galileo
magnetometer experiment in particular provided strong evidence for a salty subsurface …

One of the greatest and most long-lived scientific pursuits of humankind has been to
discover and study the planetary objects comprising our solar system. Information gained …

Accreted ice retains and preserves traces of the ocean from which it formed. In this work, we
study two classes of accreted ice found on Earth—frazil ice, which forms through …

Ocean worlds have been identified as high‐priority astrobiology targets due to the link
between life and liquid water. Young surface terrain on many icy bodies indicates that they …

Brine systems in Europa's ice shell have been hypothesized as potential habitats that could
be more accessible than the sub‐ice ocean. We model the distribution of sub‐millimeter …

The orbital and internal evolution of the ice‐covered ocean worlds orbiting Jupiter and
Saturn are coupled, leading to time‐varying thicknesses of their ice shells. As the ice …

The composition of impurities in ice controls the stability of liquid water and thus the
distribution of potential aqueous habitats. We present a framework for modeling the brine …

Several worlds in our solar system are thought to hold oceans of liquid water beneath their
frozen surfaces. These subsurface ice and ocean environments are promising targets in the …

Subsurface oceans rich in salts may be prevalent in the icy worlds of the outer solar system.
Surface observations have led to various hypotheses for the transport of materials from the …

The eutectic is fundamental to multicomponent systems, defining the lowest temperature at
which a given liquid phase is stable. Although binary aqueous eutectics have been broadly …